CV

Hi, I’m Chris. I am a 21 year old front-end web developer. I will be graduating in the Spring of 2011 from Huntington University with a double major in Graphic Design and Philosophy.

Early Life

At an early age I developed a fascination with numbers, color, and design. I like to think that during these early years of my life, I was creating a foundation for the passion I now have with web design.

My first taste of web design came when I was about 13 in a class I took that had us make our own website using Yahoo's Page Builder. Since then, I've grown to love web standards, grid theory, and usability.

My Experience

Starting with my high school’s website, I have had the awesome opportunity to work on many different projects for all sorts of clients. I’ve worked for non-profit organizations, churches, as well as businesses and companies.

I have over 3 years of experience in the professional field of web and graphic design. I am extremely knowledgeable on things like color theory, grid structures, and semantic markup.

I also have a growing passion for web usability, information architecture, and interaction design, and hope to some day work in one of these fields.

This site

I designed and created this site from the ground up in about a weekend’s worth of time. Instead of making the design first in Photoshop, I design and coded the site at the same time.

I make use of several semantic HTML5 tags throughout the site, and even sprinkle in some CSS3 goodies here and there for visual effect.

The site runs on Wordpress, and I use the following plugins: Akismet, Google XML Sitemaps, Wordpress.com Stats, and WP Super Cache.

This site has also been featured on:

• Devlounge
• HTML5 Gallery
• 101 Best HTML5 Sites

Contact me

If you want to get in touch, or just say hi, feel free to check me out on Twitter, flickr, last.fm, and Facebook, or, send me an email at me@chrisvalleskey.com.